>OSX is of course a multi-user system, but the WorkGroup Manager and >Server Admin are a decent (or better) front end to the underlying >daemons, as long as you are vanilla. Which you are if you are running >SIMS. If your complaint is "a nice front end," I'm not sure that >holds water. If your complaint is that OSX works with System >accounts, well, yes, that's how it works. I can't really tell if your >complaint is one, the other, or both.
You are correct, WorkGroup Manager does a nice job of handling system account setup. But I don't want to have to make system accounts for ever email box that I want to exist. Plus I have tons of wildcard addresses (ie: cgi-*) that all map to the same email box. I use these extensively and really can't live without them. Currently, using OS X's Postfix interface, there is no way to do these. >Having said that, IIRC Postfix does not require system accounts, and >the 3rd-party web-based Webmin is quite serviceable to administer >Postfix. My understanding is the same, Postfix can use "virtual" accounts instead, either via a SQL database, or just from a text file. However, OS X doesn't have an interface to do those. There may be good 3rd party webmin tools to do it, and I haven't ruled out Postfix because I haven't had a chance to look into these 3rd party tools. And there is the rub, and what keeps me here with SIMS. Time. I lack the time to invest trying to recreate a system that I already have running just fine. It is a goal of mine some day to move off SIMS, but it is a project that keeps getting pushed down to the bottom of the list as more important things crop up. >There are other pros and cons of course, and I'm only just beginning >to tackle the issue of implementing a SIMS-style router. Anyone one >else out there doing this and want to share? Well, if you figure that one out, I'd love to know. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
